{"id":11,"date":"2016-12-26T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/?p=11"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T21:50:08","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/2016\/12\/26\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear students,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to\u00a0<span class=\"il\">English<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">343<\/span>: Eco-Beowulf.\u00a0I strongly suggest that you read Seamus Heaney&#8217;s very enjoyable translation of\u00a0<em>Beowulf\u00a0<\/em>before term begins. We will spend much of the course going back to select passages, but you will be glad to have read it already. Note that this translation is available in its own edition (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Beowulf-Verse-Translation-Seamus-Heaney\/dp\/0374111197\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1482445435&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=heaney+beowulf\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Beowulf-Verse-Translation-Seamus-Heaney\/dp\/0374111197\/ref%3Dsr_1_1?ie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1482445435%26sr%3D8-1%26keywords%3Dheaney%2Bbeowulf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1482870128570000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGbdM27C0XuDLz3naIMZ_ELXbrzhQ\">this one<\/a>), and is also included in the Norton Anthology of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">English<\/span>\u00a0Literature, vol. A (editions 8 and 9).<\/p>\n<p>All best,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pareles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear students, Welcome to\u00a0English\u00a0343: Eco-Beowulf.\u00a0I strongly suggest that you read Seamus Heaney&#8217;s very enjoyable translation of\u00a0Beowulf\u00a0before term begins. We will spend much of the course going back to select passages, but you will be glad to have read it already. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/2016\/12\/26\/welcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl343spring2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}